出版社:Faculdade de Psicologia, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul
摘要:Norms of semantic association have been internationally researched for more than
one century, although they are recent in Brazil. These norms are important tools
for tasks that evaluate memory and language. In this research, 108 undergraduate
students produced the first word that came to mind, related in meaning to each
one of the 88 target words presented before. Association strength between the
pairs of words and the set size of the target were analyzed. The majority of
pairs presented strong or medium strength of semantic association. The mean of
total and meaning set size were, respectively, 37,56 and 12,40. Negative
correlations were observed among association strength and set size. The
concreteness of targets had a positive correlation with association strength and
a negative correlation with total set size. Thus, it can be inferred that the
bigger the target set size, the weaker the strength of association between
pairs.
关键词:Semantic association; norms; word lists; association strength; concreteness.